Please click one of the links under programs to learn more information about each of FEAT's service programs.
In order to help families in their journey with autism, FEAT of Washington provides many services and resources in addition to offering intervention and educational programs for children with ASD.
Family Resources & Support Services
- Family Services Coordinator – In person, phone and online support for navigating the intervention, education and healthcare(including private insurance and publicly funded programs) systems successfully.
- Resource Guide – an all important road map to available resources in the Puget Sound. The Resource Guide is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE...click here.
- ABA Therapist Recruitment – job opportunities for individuals who are interested in working in ABA home programs are posted regularly in area universities and colleges. FEAT also maintains a frequently updated therapist list to help ensure that FEAT families can find the ABA therapists they need. Are you interested in becoming an ABA therapist? Then, click here to access our easy online registration form.
- ABA Therapist List – FEAT of Washington maintains a current list of ABA therapists who are seeking work in in-home ABA programs under the direction of qualified ABA Consultants. Our ABA Therapist List is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE...click here!
- Listserv – FEATWA memband so much more.
- Speakers Series – a workshop and presentation series geared at providing family members, teachers, and other services providers with state-of-the-art information they need related to autism. Presentations occur one to two times per month and are delivered by experts in the various topics covered, which include intervention, educational, and legal and more.
Respite Programs
- Junior Super Saturday – a respite care program for young children ages 3-8 with autism and their typically developing siblings and peers.
- South Sound Super Saturday - FEAT's newest social and respite program designed to get children with autism and their typical siblings and peers, ages 5-12 years old, to productively interact. The program meets in University Place, Washington.
Clinical Programs
- Rising Star Academy - high quality early childhood intervention for all learners, 3-6 years old. RSA is held Monday thru Friday from 9 - 12 Noon. In addition, up to 15 hours/week of Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) is now available in the afternoon as an option only for our youngsters enrolled in the RSA program.
- Summer Intervention Program – designed to bridge the summer vacation and accelerate the individualized progress of its learners, 4-12 years old. The curriculum employs Fluency-Based Instruction, a unique application of the principles of ABA specifically designed to teach basic learner skills to those with social, communication and learning disabilities.
- Transitions for Teens – Designed by one of the nation’s leading experts in behavior analytic intervention for adolescents with autism and related disabilities (Dr. Peter Gerhardt, President of the Organization for Autism Research), the Transitions for Teens program is best described as a constellation of services targeted at the needs of low-skilled or moderately-skilled adolescents with autism and related disabilities.
- Experience Learning Project (E.L.P.) - An innovative program that helps teens with high functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome to improve their social problem solving and social thinking skills within a service learning context.
- Behavioral Safety Intervention - Does your child seem to be attracted to potentially harmful items? If so, you have the opportunity for your child to receive free intervention aimed at improving your child's ability to avoid such items. This area of work is called behavioral safety training, and Judy Bui, a graduate student in applied behavior analysis at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, will be completing a study in association with FEAT of Washington on behavioral safety training. For this study, Judy is looking to recruit a maximum of six children with an autism spectrum disorder who are between the ages of three and seven. Selected children will receive free intervention aimed at reducing their attraction to potentially dangerous items. All intervention will occur either in the child’s home or at the FEAT center in Bellevue. For more information on this exciting opportunity for your child, or to contact Judy Bui, the study’s lead investigator, please click here.
Families for Effective Autism Treatment
(FEAT) of Washington
